Landscape designers can improve productivity by building a template drawing populated with commonly used tools. Here we build a template for a designer based in Florida. We populate modelspace with a set of plant symbols, set those to entries in a plant database file so plant schedules can be created, and add several drawing sheets complete with a title block containing the company logo. Finally, gCADPlus is configured such that each new drawing uses that template.
This movie focuses on assisting landscape designers using gCADPlus to improve their drafting efficiency. We create a template for a team of designers based in Westen Australia. The template includes a collection of symbols commonly used in everyday drafting. The template drawing was saved to a directory outside the normal gCADPlus folder and the path to templates altered to reflect that change. We also altered the path to the MySymbols folder creating a space for storage of any new symbols made by the team. New designs could be created with a minimum of fuss.